verbal annoyancesFollow

I just got off the phone with my oil company, trying to schedule an appointment to have my fuirnace cleaned for the winter. The person I was transferred to immediatly started talking so hurridly I had a hard time understanding what the hell he was even trying to say. You guys remember back in the 80's those mini race cars and the guy in the commercial they had could spek about 30 words a second? This guy was his cousin. On top of that, anytime I would answer his question, the last half of my sentence was cut off with him jumping in. It sounded as if he didnt get talking over the phone over and done with in under a minute he would have been tortured to death by some gruesome device hooked up to his **** and he could already feel it starting to slwoly twist and pull.
My immediate reaction was to slow down what I was saying, if only to keep some semblance of a normal discussion while I got my appointment. Amusingly enough, the slower I talked, the faster he spoke. While I got a small kick out of it, the immediate sense I got, whether he meant it or not, was that my time and money was the last thing he wanted to deal with.

Everyone has their quirks when talking, but anything just get under your skin to the point you automatically start toying with the person just to get a reaction?

I'm always surprised how many times I hear people say "reocurring" -- It annoys me, but not so much that I try to toy with them or anything.

I had a professor in college that used 'okay' as his filler word and sometimes he would use 'okay' between other instances of 'okay'

"Okay, now we okay....okay are going to talk about okay cost of goods sold"

I didn't really notice it until it was pointed out to me and then I tried to count how many times he said it in 1 lecture. We were five minutes in and he had already said it 30-something times and I quit counting. I couldn't take him seriously at all after that.

I hate the word y'all. But then, it comes from the dirty South, so what do you expect?

I'm not so much annoyed as amused by the teen-agers who use "like" constantly. Sometimes I'll throw a few back at them in a completely nonsensical way just to upset their universe.

My boss has an extreme loathing for people interrupting him. Every time someone who doesn't know him starts doing it I wince, then start grinning in anticipation of the inevitable blow-up.

Micro Machines!

Well, you pick one thing and you do it well.

Ironically enough, I've done that. I worked at a call center/answering service for a few months during college and I found that those that were in a total hurry to leave messages, I would slow down and take my time. They would get all peeved at me but I always told them that I had to make sure their message was accurate and didn't want to relay incorrect information. They couldn't argue with my point of view on this so in some ways it was just my way of a total silent ***-kicking.

How about people that deliberately slow down while they're driving because they see you rip-roaring coming up right behind them?

People like you cause accidents. I hope you die a firey death caused by a hit and run. Cnut.

Be thankful that they dont use "irregardless" instead.

Sounds like a capital idea there! Either way, in the end, you're right!

One day you will do that to the wrong person an get shot. Too damn many road-ragers out there with guns to be pulling that shit.

I'm pretty relaxed and patient by nature, so she's actually a good compliment to my behaviors. Plus she's nice as hell. Though I'll grant that occasionally I've debated duct taping her mouth shut :P

I hate it when someone talks over me.

I hate mumblers.

I hate it (but secretly love it) when people misuse words in an effort to sound s-m-r-t.

Man, don't get me started...

Ah, I love that. I had another friend who once kept saying "We need to implore the function." in reference to a physics homework problem. Classic.